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descriptive

How many syllables in descriptive?

  3 syllables

Divide descriptive into syllables:   de-scrip-tive
Stressed syllable in descriptive:   de-scrip-tive
How to pronounce descriptive:   dih-skrip-tiv
How to say descriptive:

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